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Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative (CTBI)
The Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative (CTBI) is a 10-year R&D program developing triticale as a dedicated industrial biorefining crop for Canada.
CTBI’s vision for 2015 sees significant triticale acreage grown in Western Canada, supplying locally established, world-scale biorefineries that produce a range of products and co-products: renewable energy, platform chemicals, biomaterials, biocomposites and more.
The term biorefining describes the manufacturing process of converting agricultural and forestry feedstocks into valuable products. In a sense, then, a biorefinery is not unlike an oil refinery. There, crude oil is fractionated into a vast array of fossil-fuel based products. A biorefinery is similar, only the feedstock is renewable and the potential product stream includes not only fuels and energy, but advanced materials and chemicals.
Industrial-scale biorefineries have been identified as the most promising route to the creation of a sustainable bioeconomy. Still, CTBI is the first to admit our vision is an ambitious one, involving a significant rethink of prairie agriculture’s assumptions, conventions and past practices.
Nonetheless, we are confident of success. Why? Because CTBI represents a coordinated and focused effort of the many disciplines whose expertise will advance our vision: scientists, industrial engineers, business development and marketing staff and many others. Though we might view triticale from different perspectives, all are guided by a commitment and passion to meeting the long-term potential of this unique Canadian plant.
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